[fol. 1r:] Incipit liber missalis ẜm choꝝ || patauiẽsem.

Expletum est hoc opꝰ librorū || missalium pro Pataueñ eccłe || ritu:caractere iocūdissimo Au||guste impressum opera et im/||pensis Erhardi ratdolt ibide𝔷 || artis impressorie vulgatissimi || Anno salutis dñice Millesimo || ꝗngētesimoquinto.Die vero || quinto mensis Januarij.||

Ratdolt’s mark, printed from red and black; above: Erhardi Ratdolt felicia conspice signa || Testata artificem qua valet ipse manum.

Augsburg

Liturgical book

This edition is a variant of vdm 236 (VD16 M 5608). In each edition, the colophon is the same (dated 5 January 1505), but the preface (from bishop Wiguleus Fröschl) has been completely reset. In this edition, the preface (fol. [α]2v) is dated 5 January 1505 (“Datum in ciuitate nostra Patauieñ De ãno dñice natiuitatꝭ || Millesimo quingentesimoquinto Die quinta mensis Januarij”).

Latin

[12], I-CXXVIII, [6], CXXXV-CCLXIII, [1]

D-Mbs Rar. 2139

D-Mbs

multiple impression

Rotunda, Uncial

red text, red initials, red staff lines

The full-length staff lines are made from seven pieces, each 21.5 mm long. The staff lines on the pages where the music is set in two columns are 78 x 17 mm. Each short staff is made of three pieces 22.25 mm long and three pieces 3 mm long. F-clef looks like a 3. Possibly printed in triple impression.

Hufnagel notation

full-length staff: 160 x 17 mm.
Height of virga one: 8.5 mm; height of virga two: 10.5 mm; height of virga three: 14.3 mm.

chant

CVIIr-CXXVIIIv: chants for prefaces, Pater noster, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Ite missa est.

A-SF, *D-Mbs, GB-Lbl

Passau: Johann Petri, [1491–1492 c.], vdm: 1452

Weale, William Henry James. Bibliographia liturgica: Catalogus missalium ritus latini ab anno MCCCLXXV impressorum. Edited by Hanns Bohatta. London: Quaritch, 1928 (772)